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Admissions

Regular admissions

Admissions to the Doctoral School are awarded on a competitive basis. The competition is conducted by the Admission Committee composed of researchers from the Institutes that run the Doctoral School in order to select the best candidates through evaluation (in the form of scoring) their study results, scientific achievements, and knowledge in the field of higher education in connection with the subject of their master's thesis and the topic selected for implementation during the doctoral studies. The candidates with the highest scores are admitted to the Doctoral School. Admission to the Doctoral School takes place by enrolling a candidate on the list of doctoral students in a given academic year.

The regular admissions period starts in September and detailed recruitment rules are announced five months in advance. Research topics proposed to candidates, along with the admission limit to the Doctoral School, are announced in early July.

Terms and conditions of admissions

Admission to the Doctoral School takes place through a competition, the rules and requirements of which are approved by the Council of the Doctoral School and the Scientific Council of IB PAS:

Admission calendar for the academic year 2023/2024

  • Until July 3, 2023 – announcement of the members of the Admission Committee
  • Until July 5, 2023 – announcement of the research topics and admission limits
  • Until August 20, 2023 – submission of documents for the admission process by candidates
  • Between September 4 and 8, 2023 – interviews with candidates
  • Until September 30, 2023 – completion of the admission process

The candidates will be informed about the exact date of the interview and its form (on-line or on-site) before September 4, 2023.

Admission Committee

Director of the W. Szafer Institute of Botany of the Polish Academy of Sciences appointed the Admission Committee for the recruitment of candidates for the Doctoral School of Natural and Agricultural Sciences for the academic year 2023/2024, composed of:

  • Dr. Agnieszka Bednarska (Chairwoman)
  • Professor Franciszek Janowiak
  • Dr. Łukasz Kajtoch
  • Dr. Paweł Kapusta
  • Dr. Joanna Nowak
  • Professor Henryk Okarma
  • Dr. Grażyna Szarek-Łukaszewska
  • Professor Lucyna Śliwa
  • Dr. Sebastian Tarcz
  • Dr. Elżbieta Wilk-Woźniak
  • Dr. Piotr Wójcik
  • Professor Iwona Żur
  • Anna Misiewicz
  • Marcin Wiorek

Admissions limit and research topics

Director of the W. Szafer Institute of Botany of the Polish Academy of Sciences announced admission to the Doctoral School of Natural and Agricultural Sciences for the academic year 2023/2024 with the admission limit of 6 people and the following list of framework research topics.

  1. Hybridization with a common relative – the threat or chance for the protected bird species?PDF (as part of recruitment to a current project; see below)
  2. Evaluation of the possibility of using porcine preadipocyte lines in the verification of the functions of selected lncRNA during adipogenesisPDF
  3. Medicinal limonoids from rare, tropical species of Meliaceae family – the exploration of their diversity, biological activities, and ways of production in the plant in vitro culturesin vitroMedicinal limonoids from rare, tropical species of Meliaceae family – the exploration of their diversity, biological activities, and ways of production in the plant in vitro culturesPDF
  4. Mountain ecosystems facing global warming: study of impact of snow cover parameters on microbial communities of nivicolous myxomycetesPDF (as part of recruitment to a current project; see below)
  5. Abiotic and biotic factors associated with the decline of cyanobacterial bloomsPDF
  6. Environmental stressors and contaminants, and their impact on brown bear populationsPDF

Required documents

The list of obligatory documents and their form are specified in the Rules for Admission (see above).

Non-standard admissions (research project recruitment)

The competition for a doctoral student for a research project under the Doctoral School takes place on the terms and according to the schedule announced at the Institute which is the beneficiary of the project.

Current project recruitment:

  • PhD-student position in a research project "Hybridization with a common relative – a threat or an opportunity for a protected bird species?" (Research topic no. 1; see above) at the Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals of the Polish Academy of Sciences – Link to the announcementPDF
  • PhD-student position in a research project "Mountain ecosystems facing global warming: study of impact of snow cover parameters on microbial communities of nivicolous myxomycetes" (Research topic no. 4; see above) at the W. Szafer Institute of Botany of the Polish Academy of Sciences – Link to the announcement (in Polish)PDF

Downloadable Documents